Your mortgage is a fixed cost while rents go up every year so cashflow goes up over time, its hard to see upfront but 3+ years later is very clear the effects of this and compounds the longer hold it. 

Make more money, buy more buildings, and repeat.These folks have compounded their wealth significantly faster than their W2 counterparts since they don't lose 30-50% to taxes each year.

And your appreciation compounds so 3 to 5% today on 600k is X but 3 to 5% in 10 years might be double. 

I graciously bowed out.

Long-term this will likely raise insurance rates for all owners, compounding on top of sky-high current insurance rates.

And give consideration to Ripple, Ethereum, Litecoin, Tezos, Compound.

But, this doesn’t reflect the fact that the initial investment decreased from $100 to $50 over two years.The flaw with ARR is that it doesn’t take into account compounding or the actual sequence of returns.

Imagine making millions of dollars throughout your career and then having to pay Uncle Sam 30-50% every year instead of compounding that cash over time.This is exactly what real estate professionals have learned to mitigate.To reduce their taxable income, they buy a building every year, do a cost seg, and use depreciation to reduce their tax liability dramatically.Their personal wealth snowball grows much larger and much faster than their W2 counterparts who give most of their money back to the government each year.Following this strategy as a real estate professional is one of the best ways to end up with a much larger net worth at the end of your career.

Quote from @Michelle Bowes: We own a residential 10-plex in a small, safe, Nebraska rural community. 

Thank you Ned, that is exactly right, we actually check a condo/townhouse about 2 weeks ago, the thing was a condo with a basement, I cannot tell if it was a condo or townhome, anyway, the ceiling in the first floor was bowing, the 2nd floor, one of the bedroom was sinking, could not tell how this damage was done but the walls came apart from the floor, you could see the roof of the unit bowing inwards towards the structure a bit, and their "general contractor" estimate that for 5k they could straighten the property and level everything, even 1 window and 1 door looked so uneven that you would think  there was something wrong with your eyes...5k for structural damage, good luck with that one, we ran as far as we could from that....but we have seen they do inflate their ARV, since we learned the hard way , we go through these deals with a magnifying glass, I knew I was not so picky, numbers do not lie.Another thing that caught my attention, which I do not know if I am overly suspicious now that I am older, but they want to get the closing for us at the same time/day they are getting the property from whoever they buying it, which it seems to me they try to save on the closing by having a "dual" closing when in reality is just 1 closing and we are the one paying for it...I do not know there are few things that do not click right with this folks.